Eysenck’s Personality Inventory (EPI) (Extroversion/Introversion)

The Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) measures two pervasive, independent dimensions of personality, Extraversion-Introversion and Neuroticism-Stability, which account for most of the variance in the personality domain. Each form contains 57 “Yes-No” items with no repetition of items. The inclusion of a falsification scale provides for the detection of response distortion. The traits measured are Extraversion-Introversion and Neuroticism. When you fill out Eysenck’s Personality Inventory (EPI) you get three scores.

The ‘lie score’ is out of 9. It measures how socially desirable you are trying to be in your answers.Those who score 5 or more on this scale are probably trying to make themselves look good and are not being totally honest in their responses.

The ‘E score’ is out of 24 and measures how much of an extrovert you are.

The ‘N score’ is out of 24 and measures how neurotic you are.

To interpret the scores, your E score and your N score are plotted on a graph from which you can read your personality characteristics. The nearer the outside of the circle you are, the more marked are the personality traits. Please note that the EPI is a very simplistic type of personality measurement scale, so if you have come out as a personality that does not match what you thought before you took the test, you are probably right and the test is probably wrong!

Instructions

Here are some questions regarding the way you behave, feel and act. Each question has radio buttons to answer YES or NO. Try to decide whether YES or NO represents your usual way of acting or feeling. Then check those radio named YES or NO. Work quickly, and don’t spend too much time over any question, we want your first reaction, not a long drawn-out thought process. The whole questionnaire shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. Be sure not to omit any questions. Start now, work quickly and remember to answer every question. There are no right or wrong answers, and this isn’t a test of intelligence or ability, but simply a measure of the way you behave.

1.Do you often long for excitement?

Yes

No

2.Do you often need understanding friends to cheer you up?

Yes

No

3.Are you usually carefree?

Yes

No

4.Do you find it very hard to take no for an answer?

Yes

No

5.Do you stop and think things over before doing anything?

Yes

No

6.If you say you will do something do you always keep your promise, no matter how inconvenient it might be to do so?

Yes

No

7.Do your moods go up and down?

Yes

No

8.Do you generally do and say things quickly without stopping to think?

Yes

No

9.Do you ever feel ‘just miserable’ for no good reason?

Yes

No

10.Would you do almost anything for a dare?

Yes

No

11.Do you suddenly feel shy when you want to talk to an attractive stranger?

Yes

No

12.Once in a while do you lose your temper and get angry?

Yes

No

13.Do you often do things on the spur of the moment?

Yes

No

14.Do you often worry about things you should have done or said?

Yes

No

15.Generally do you prefer reading to meeting people?

Yes

No

16.Are your feelings rather easily hurt?

Yes

No

17.Do you like going out a lot?

Yes

No

18.Do you occasionally have thoughts and ideas that you would not like other people to know about?

Yes

No

19.Are you sometimes bubbling over with energy and sometimes very sluggish?

Yes

No

20.Do you prefer to have few but special friends?

Yes

No

21.Do you daydream a lot?

Yes

No

22.When people shout at you do you shout back?

Yes

No

23.Are you often troubled about feelings of guilt?

Yes

No

24.Are all your habits good and desirable ones?

Yes

No

25.Can you usually let yourself go and enjoy yourself a lot at a lively party?

Yes

No

26.Would you call yourself tense or ‘highly strung’?

Yes

No

27.Do other people think of you as being very lively?

Yes

No

28.After you have done something important, do you come away feeling you could have done better?

Yes

No

29.Are you mostly quiet when you are with other people?

Yes

No

30.Do you sometimes gossip?

Yes

No

31.Do ideas run through your head so that you cannot sleep?

Yes

No

32.If there is something you want to know about, would you rather look it up in a book than talk to someone about it?

Yes

No

33.Do you get palpitations or thumping in your heart?

Yes

No

34.Do you like the kind of work that you need to pay close attention to?

Yes

No

35.Do you get attacks of shaking or trembling?

Yes

No

36.Would you always declare everything at customs, even if you knewyou could never be found out?

Yes

No

37.Do you hate being with a crowd who play jokes on one another?

Yes

No

38.Are you an irritable person?

Yes

No

39.Do you like doing things in which you have to act quickly?

Yes

No

40.Do you worry about awful things that might happen?

Yes

No

41.Are you slow and unhurried in the way you move?

Yes

No

42.Have you ever been late for an appointment or work?

Yes

No

43.Do you have many nightmares?

Yes

No

44.Do you like talking to people so much that you never miss a chance of talking to a stranger?

Yes

No

45.Are you troubled by aches and pains?

Yes

No

46.Would you be very unhappy if you could not see lots of people most of the time?

Yes

No

47.Would you call yourself a nervous person?

Yes

No

48.Of all the people you know, are there some whom you definitely do not like?